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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2004 Mar;99(465):239–249. doi: 10.1198/016214504000000232

Table 3. Results From the Principal Stratification Model of Section 5.3 on Exchanging Needles at the NEP and on HIV Seroconversion.

Estimand Estimate 95% CR b
(a) Odds ratio of higher versus lower
  principal stratumaS for 1 standard
  deviation increase in baseline risk
  score B: exp(β(b)(S))
1.15 (1.11, 1.20)
(b) Odds of HIV seroconversion under
  fixed exchange for higher versus
  lower principal stratumaS, given fixed
  baseline risk score B: exp(β(s)(Y))
2.92 (.99, 96.36)
(c) Odds ratio of HIV seroconversion
  for close versus far distance from
  the NEP and attributable to needle
  exchangec: exp(β(s,d)(Y))
.11 (.0003, 2.23)
a

A subject’s principal stratum is the closest distance to place the NEP beyond which that subject would not exchange at it.

b

Joint confidence region.

c

Conditionally on baseline risk score B and principal stratum S.